LANGUAGE IN LITERATURE

1. LANGUAGE IN LITERATURE BBL 3207 SEMESTER 1 2012/2013 DR. IDA BAIZURA BAHAR

2. 2. Graphological Level • Design, layout, spelling and lettering • The typographical arrangement of words is as important in conveying the intended effect she loves me she loves me not she loves she loves me she she loves she - Emmet Williams

3. 3. Grammatical Level • Grammar itself is also composed of a number of levels. composed of one or more clauses (or "simple sentences"). composed of one or more phrases. composed of one or more words. Sentences Clauses Phrases Words

4. Words • Word class: • noun (N), • verb (V), • adjective (A) • adverb (Adv).

5. 3. Grammatical Level • Sentence structure: • Single – a sentence with only one verb group • Compound – sentences / clauses linked simply (and, but) • Complex – sentences where subordinate clauses are bound together by more complex connectives and punctuation

6. Consider the sentence, • 'The audience might like the play but I hate it'. • Using round brackets to indicate the phrases and square brackets to indicate the clauses, we can show the sentence's structure as follows: • [ ( The audience) ( might like ) ( the play ) ] [ but ( I ) ( hate ) ( it ) ] • The sentence thus consists of two coordinated clauses (ie two simple sentences joined together as one sentence). In the first clause each constituent phrase consists of two words, and in the second clause each phrase consists of one word.

7. 3. Grammatical Level • Identifying elements of simple sentences  functions of words and phrases in sentences: subject, predicate, object, complement, adverbial

10. Words and Tropes: Transference of Meaning • Trope: (Greek tropein, to turn) involves a deviation from the ordinary and principal signification or meaning of a word. Metaphor, metonymy, personification, simile, and synecdoche are sometimes referred to as the principal tropes. • Involves transference: • Trope—transference of meaning • Scheme—transference of order

11. More on Foregrounding, Deviation and Parallelism Foregrounding: some parts of texts had more effect on readers than others in terms of interpretation, because the textual parts were linguistically deviant or specially patterned in some way, thus making them psychologically salient (or 'foregrounded') for readers (Short 1996) Deviation: exploits choice and frustrates expectations that are set up either by the linguistic system or by changing the pattern set up within the poem at some expected point (Herman 1998). Parallelism: defined as where some features are held constant, usually structural features, while others, usually lexical items - for example, words or idioms - are varied (Short 1996).

12. Foregrounding • Earlier it has been stated how foregrounding , deviation and parallelism are special characteristics of literary language or contribute to the literariness of language. • One way to produce foregrounding in a text, then, is through linguistic deviation. Another way is to introduce extra linguistic patterning into a text. The most common way of introducing this extra patterning is by repeating linguistic structures more often than we would normally expect to make parts of texts PARALLEL with one another. • This: linguistic deviation + lingustic paralellism = produce the effect of foregrounding

13. Sound Parallelism • how sound patterns contribute to the meaning and effects of poems: alliteration, assonance and rhyme, • and also how particular sounds and groups of sounds 'mimic' phenomena in the world to create effects like onomatopoeia

14. Sound Parallelism • Words that sound like what they mean • Most obvious examples are onomatopoeic: ‘hiss’ or ‘shush’ • Example: • And sometimes like a gleaner thou dost keep • Steady thy laden head across a brook; • Or by a cider press, with patient look, • Thou watchest the last oozings hours by hours. • (John Keats, 'To Autumn')